Abstract
This chapter explores how sociological methods, concepts, and theories have been engaged to study international peacebuilding. Sociology is used in three ways to study peacebuilding: as general ontological understanding of the research object as a “society” in which policymakers can intervene in order to achieve specific policy goals; as a set of observation methods; and as a reference in social theory and philosophy that allows criticizing peacebuilding’s configurations of power and inequality. Given their substantially different epistemologies, these ways draw a very uneven image of what that society actually is, how it “works, " and how it affects or is affected by peacebuilding.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation |
Editors | Gezim Visoka, Oliver P. Richmond |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 123-138 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190904418 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780197576410 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01 Jul 2021 |
Keywords
- International political sociology
- Peace
- Peacebuilding organizations
- Power
- Society